I’m an international, multiple award-winning author with a passion for the voices in my head. As a singer, songwriter, independent filmmaker and improv teacher and performer, my life has always been about creating and sharing what I create with others. Now that my dream to write for a living is a reality, with over a hundred titles in happy publication and no end in sight, I live in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada, with my giant cats, pug overlord and overlady and my Gypsy Vanner gelding, Fynn.

The blue joy is calling... but can Fresco survive it?

"Do you know what happened to you?" Joey's voice broke a little. Fresco shook his head. The kid nodded, like it was no big surprise." Yeah, me either. No one seems to. We just have normal lives, you know? Then suddenly you wake up with this thing eating into you," he swallowed hard, "and that's it. The rest is Wasteland."

Seventeen-year-old Fresco Conte is an ordinary All-American kid from an upper middle-class family. He plays football. His girlfriend is a cheerleader. Life is good. Until unexplained things, scary things, start to take him over. Like surviving an accident that should have killed him. Or hearing the thoughts of the people around him whether he wants to or not.
 
When the men in the dark blue coveralls come for him, Fresco is forced into addiction to the blue joy known as Wasteland and set free on the street, with no answers and only his hunger to keep him company.

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Fresco put Apple safely to bed and went looking for his brother. He would keep the promise he made to the little girl who thought he was a hero, as uncomfortable as that made him. He knew he was a fraud, but he didn't have the courage to break her heart any further.


His attempt at connecting with Daniel's mind came up blank. Fresco found himself wandering down to the sub basement again, thinking his brother was inside the twin's protective net. He only found Andrew standing guard.


Again, no luck. He was stared at and whispered about by the small knot of kids there, though. That was fun. Fresco cut out quickly when none of them made an effort to talk to him. As much as he compared Daniel's little refuge to Last Stand, it certainly wasn't. And he finally pinpointed what was missing.


Trust. That lack made Fresco very nervous.


Chapter 85: All On The Same Side